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Summary: Boring!!
Review: This book was really dumb. I mean think about it, a 115 lb dog KILLING a bear. Come on! Even a 215 lb man, without a gun, couldn't kill a bear. It was unrealistic and it was sick! Why would anyone want to hurt a dog? And for what cause? To go deliver mail across Canada? Which, the author didn't really explain well. The author put in all of these characters that don't really need to be put into the story at all. The author didn't really make the story interesting. Maybe it was because I read it for school instead of on my own, but it was a really really boring book and I don't recomend it to anyone at all!
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Summary: I'd give an infinite amount of stars
Review: Those who gave a 1 star please seek help. the reason why some people didn't enjoy it is because they couldn't understand this advanced book. I loved it because I understood the whole story. It's wonderful, yet sad just like life in the Yukon.
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Summary: An admirable book with a fascinating story
Review: Let me say that this was the first novel that I ever read, almost twenty years ago. I was a seven-year old boy and I had never read anything but cartoons. After reading it, I suddenly found out what incredible worlds could be hidden behind all those books filled with nothing else but letters. After that, I became an avid reader and books became my passion. I still remember the adventures of Buck and his tale of courage, devotion, friendship, loyalty and survival. The great lesson is: if a dog can feel it, why shouldn't humans feel it too?
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Summary: Call of the Wild
Review: I was required to read this book for school. I'm in 8th grade and to me it was the boringst thing on the face of this planet. It didn't make a bit of sense to me and the descriptions were anything but interesting. Jack London described so much it got to the point where I couldn't remember what he was describing! Buck (the dog) went through many different owners and went to so many different places, that you couldnt' keep it straight! Don't think that I am just some rude kid who had no appreciation for books, I love to read, but this wasn't something I enjoyed! Other Author's and Books I've Read (that I actually liked): Maud Hart Lovelace, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Beverly Cleary, Edward Eager, and Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Summary: This book shows the nomadiac being in all of us.
Review: Hi! I'm Tommy and this is my reveiw of Call of the wild. In this book Buck (the main character) is kidnapped by judge Miller's unfaithfull servant. Who is in debt because of his undying habit of playing chinese lottery. Buck is then sold to a man who ships him by train to the man in the red sweater who is the 'dog breaker' and he is beaten. From the dog breaker he is bought by Perrut and Francois. Then when they get all of the dogs together they hook Buck up to the traces. As buck learns to pull a sled and stay out of the traces he begins to make freinds. Then their camp is raided by starving huskies and all of the dogs were injured in the fight with the huskies. From there Buck is bought by Mercadies and her brother and husband. They are inexperienced and end op dying with eight out of nine sled dogs. Buck manages to survive but I'm not telling how. Then when he finds indians at the camp and his new master dead he attacks and kills most of the indiands. Then buck is attacked by a wolf pack but walks away their leader. Want to know how? THEN READ THE BOOK
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Summary: The Call Of The Wild
Review: Rooted in a dramatic phase in history, the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush, The Call Of The Wild is a spectacular novel filled with adventure and suspense. It is a captivating classic, a thrilling tale of a hero who faces numerous unknown risks and damages. Buck, part Scotch Shepherd and part St. Bernard, leads a sheltered life of a ranch dog, who is loved by everyone. Then, kidnapped from his home in California, he is thrown into a world of turmoil. Buck is sold and shipped to Alaska to fulfill the need for sled dogs during the Klondike Gold Rush. Although not ready for the world of the harsh Arctic North, Buck fights to adapt and live. To survive, Buck had to accept and learn the lessons of the arctic. Buck triumphs over all the obstacles and odds. The Call Of The Wild is a fascinating novel because Jack London allows us to see life through the eyes of Buck. You are able to know what Buck feels and thinks. Buck has the talent to see human emotion, weakness, behavior, and thought. Throughout the novel, Buck expresses the qualities of strength, loyalty, and intelligence. Another interesting aspect of this novel is that London makes each of the dogs an individual, he gives them each their own personality. London also makes this novel exciting by telling it "like it was" To survive in the harsh klondike was a struggle. In Buck's fight to survive in the north, we understand London's personal beliefs. London believed that " all life was a struggle in which the weak fell by the way and only the best, the super beings, could hope to rise. This idea influenced London very much, and appears strongly throughout The Call Of The Wild. Selling more than two million hard bound copies in just the United States, The Call Of The Wild has succeeded tremendously. Filled with adventure, this novel could be compared to to other novels by Jack London, such as White Fang and The Sea - Wolf. Another author whose books are written similar to Jack London's is Gary Paulsen. Author of The Hatchet, The River, Dogsong,and The Haymeadow, Gary Paulsen is the " distinguished author of many critically acclaimed books for young people, including three Newbery Honor Books." Both Jack London and Gary Paulsen's books are filled with realism which satisfies adventure - hungry readers. Jack London had great determination and was a very astonishing man. London knew the positives and negatives of life. Poverty, suffering, trouble, and pain were something London was forced to endure. However, he never let his misfortunes defeat him. Instead, he turned his zest for life into stories which could be a reminder to all people that you can achieve anything, as long as you put your heart and soul into it.
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Summary: CALL OF THE WILD: Great
Review: Call of the Wild was an Excellent book. It really got me touched with how people endured in those conditions a century back in the Klondike. I decided to make a book project about this book. It is a newspaper front page about the first half about the book. It even includes an up to date Jack London as if he was a member of the paper.
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Summary: The best book of Jack London...
Review: I have it at home in the Childrens Classics series along with many others of Jack London.I had not realised how I would like The call of the wild so much till I read it.Unlike other books,I had not found a weakness in it even when I read the formal version of the book.I recommend this book to persons with the same feelings of me.I say it's the best book of Jack London.I thank you for lett ing me share my feelings about this book.-Ujjwal Dasgupta
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Summary: EXELENT!
Review: Possitivley one of London's best works! Features a boy and his dog off to find his fathers gold mine.
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Summary: Comments on Call of the Wild
Review: Format - Read Aloud, Listening Level - Intermediate, Reading Level - Junior High through Adult Read Aloud by Walt Price Follow Buck, a domestic dog, as he travels back to his kind's roots and runs with the wolves. Taken from his home in the Santa Clara Valley, Buck is taken to the Northland during the Klondike gold rush and finally returns to nature. "The Call of the Wild" was and is one Jack London's finest works. London borrows on his own experiences during the Klondike gold rush of 1897 to fashion this timeless tale. Later he was to write of his experiences, "It was in the Klondike that I found myself." Also, "There you get perspective. I got mine." "The Call of the Wild" is presented with a full audio reading of the book in Electronic Paperback format. London's works on the Yukon were printed his life in 2 novels, 4 short story collections and 9 shorts not in collections. If you have only read Call of the Wild o! r seen a movie based on it, you are in for a new experience according to our reviewers. Read by the actor Walt Price, you are drawn into the story in a way you can never imagine. The text and the Audio are complemented by 7 new illustrations of wolves by the the wild life Illustrator, Keri Schaeffer. Prefect for a home read aloud program. Allows children to be read aloud to even when you are busy. Recommended for age 10 and above. Great for family and business trips for those with a notebook computer. An Electronic Paperback (R) is a new type of book. Instead of the traditional paper book in a hardback or paperback cover, an Electronic Paperback is on a CD where it can be read by a common software program and displayed on a computer. Each CD has Electronic Paperback readers for OS/2, Windows 3.x, Windows/95, and Windows/98. With MacIntosh available in September. Readers are under development for the QVision Mentor(R) system and PC-DOS An Electronic Paperback c! an have up to three elements - text, artwork, and sound. A! ny Electronic Paperback may or may not have artwork. A Read Aloud type has both text and audio. A Silent Reading type has text. An Electronic Paperback has several advantages over a traditional paper book. The first is the ability to integrate the text and voice. For children's books, this gives the parent a supplement to the parent's reading aloud to the child. Various studies have indicated that children who are read aloud to develop better reading and vocabulary skills. Reading ability is the best indicator of adult success. Next, the Electronic Paperback format allows QVision as a publisher to concentrate on the content side of a book. Custom code does not have to be designed for each and every book. This in turn allows QVision to price an Electronic Paperback at a cost that is competitive with high end Paperbacks and low end hardback books. Also a collection of books with just text can be published at a low cost. One example is The Wizard of Oz Collection w! hich contains all 14 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum on a single CDROM. On every Read Aloud Electronic Paperback, there are two classifications: Listening Level and Reading Level. A Silent Reading Electronic Paperback has just the Reading Level. A Listening Vocabulary is broader than the Reading Vocabulary for an individual, so the two are different. Both classes not only take in to account Vocabulary but also content. The level in the classifications are: Pre School - Children who have not yet begun to read. Three years old to kindergarten. Early Reader - Grade Levels 1 to 4 Intermediate - Grade Levels 3 to 6 Junior High - Grade Levels 6 to 9 Senior High - Grade Levels 9 to 12 Adult - Base on content, vocabulary usually at Senior High Level Electronic Paperback is a registered trademark of Advanced Idea Machines. Mentor is a registered trademark of QVision Publishing.
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